Insects! This lesson shows you a list of insect names in English with the picture. You should practice with the example sentences to help you remember those words easily.
Table of Contents
Insects
List of Insects
- Ant
- Aphid
- Bee
- Beetle
- Butterfly
- Caterpillar
- Cicada
- Cockroach
- Dragonfly
- Flea
- Fly
- Grasshopper
- Horse-fly
- Ladybug
- Mantis
- Mosquito
- Moth
- Termite
- Tick
- Wasp
- Whitefly
Insects with Examples
Learn the names of insects with example sentences.
- The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
- Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
- He was stung by a bee.
- The beetle is thought to be a European import.
- Do you think the butterfly is a type of insect?
- These secretions are used by the caterpillar as a defence.
- Jim looked with distaste at the cockroach in his soup.
- The dragonfly is splendidly preserved on the flat bedding plane of a limestone.
- I must have been bitten by a flea, my arms are itchy.
- Was the fly alive or dead?
- Even when she was knee-high to a grasshopper.
- I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee.
- A grasshopper is big to a ladybug.
- A mantis cannot stop the wheel of a cart.
- A single mosquito can infect a large number of people.
- The moth has been a great threat to the farm.
- The termite inspector can point out some problem areas.
Learn more with names of birds in English.
Insects Infographic
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